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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-29

GCUlOIS. Madame wanted tle ' auNludlu.
whom monsieur held in holy horror. 4
snOb, a talker boaster, BOBBY, an ass;
noble, il was true. but a wretched beggar
who depended entirely on his situation. :"
They could not agree, them?
'Of course not, 'NauyiIlain. neverH
exclaimed n. Bondurand. 'Chapuis, ,
replied his wife. / Il die first.
1t was AZ this point that Mile. Celeste
took a hand in The game. she told her
father that she loved VI. Jacques Florent,
that N Fiorent loved her. and that she
would he his wife or else she would marry
De Nauyillain. She said the same TO her
mother, only the conditions were: Jacques
or Ch2pius. Neither hesitated. In order
TO SCI rid II the one each hated 50 much,
both consented. The game was won.
''Oi course the engineer was expecting
affairs 10 take this turn:'
Not a. all: but Nile. Celeste bad been
aStute enough 10 foresee that there was no
opposition to dread from that quarter.
She had her father To call on him, and
need not say that the worthy young fell
low : surprise WAS as great 2S his JOY. You
can understand that he accepted the offer
eagerly. his only condition being that, at
the wedding, the place of honor would be
given 70 his mother You have seen
yourself that his wish was granted.
Now, if You want 10 know why the
whole town attended the wedding, | must
say that il i because every body likes
Jacques. And added Father Philip,
witt 4 cunning smile. ''if Ii-Gst tel ali,
Won should remember thay We are IN tie
country. and we have had nothing else 10
talk 81 during the past three months -
Paul Bclon in The Petit journal. trans
lated for New Orleans Times Democrat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-29
FEED STORE.

Having returned 10 Wichita 10 say have anA-sel
y.a.' Sfsrs. a. Nsr~fs nd sand Ft'' Ci,sl ave-
Nest ~t~hit& here ssifi Keep cs1~tsurir ~ band
a. :. adx o feed segr. rreai AMI se~cs. Cal and
~. ROBERT J. GckEE
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Excursion Tickets

Tc San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco and all California
points, via. the Great Southern
Route, good for six months with
stop over privileges and
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The most remarkable echo known is
that in The castle Of Simoneva. TWO miles
from Milan. Ii reports the sound CT a
pistol sixty times.
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Free reclining chair cars an now r1Inping
Oh al trains on the &, X & y raI3sray-
Rock Island Route between " icigiis,
Topeka. Kansas City, 81 Joseph, CEiCaTc
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PHILADELPHIA STORE.

VIZ Ave.
Copy Of letter received this week from of the prom-
Cloak and Wrap manufacturers in the United States
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 9TH, 1887
Mr. A. KArz Dear Strive have you this week, our
entire sample line OF Wraps Newmarke Jackets &c. of which
request you sell for virtually
We do limit you price, but will allow you small
for selling then but must have the money for them
close books Dec st Yours Respectfully S. SIMON Co.
This consignment Wraps received yesterday and will be
placed sale Monday morning exactly fifty the
dollar what they the manufacture Look for the biggest
Cloak and Wrap sale record and you think you will need
soonor will pay you call Come and get Wrap
just exactly half what they cost the manufacture.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
The Wonderful "Toddy Palm"

"When I was down in Washington
the other day." remarked western poll
tlcian at the ST. James, "they showed me
a wonderful Indian palm in the botanical
gardens. They call it the caryota ureus,
and it cuts bigger figure in the world
as an intoXicant than all the distilleries of
the United States. just in proportion as
the followers of Brahlna and Buddha in
India are far more numerous than the
Christian population of the United States,
in the same proportion does that palm
tree surpass all our appliances for making
an intoXicant. 1t is a beautiful tree,
with trunk something over foot in
diameter, grows to the height of about
sixty feet, and is surmounted by an ele-
giant crown of gracefully curved leaves.
The flower spikes are ten or twelve feet
long, and issue from the trunk at the
base of the leaves, hanging down like a
horses tail. They are not produced till
the tree has arrived at its full period of
growth, and the manner in which the
numerous spikes succeed each other is
rather singular. The first spike issues
from the top of the tree, and after it has
done Towering another comes out below
1t, and so on. a flower spike being pro-
duced from the angle of each leaf stalk
or from the circular scar left by leaves
that have fallen away from the trunk,
until the process of Towering reaches the
ground, when the tree is exhausted and
dies.
1.-The English in India gave it the
name of toddy palm because they traced
kinship between their old home toddy
and the juice of the tree. The natives
work it in this fashion: When the spikes
are in the bud they cut them off, and the
sap that would have flowed into the bud
is caught by them in gourd and used as
liquor. It's very powerful and pro-
duces fine crop of delirium tremens in
India. They expect this oriental distil-
lery to flower some time this fall. Yes,
it's the only toddy palm in this country"
New York Evening Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
The Use of Snakes.

Persons who dislike snakes continually
ask: "What is the use of them?' That
they are not without use will, hope, ap-
pear in the course of this work, were it
necessary to preach that all things have
their use. But in one habit that offended
Lord Bacon, namely, of 'going on their
belly" lies one of their greatest uses, be-
cause that, together with their internal
formation and external covering, enables
them to penetrate where no larger car
nivorous animal could venture, into dark
and noisome morasses, bog jungles,
swamps, amid the vegetation of the
tropics, where swarms of the lesser rep
tiles on which so many of them feed,
wouth otherwise outbalance the harmony
of nature, die and produce pestilence.
Wondrously and eXquisitely constructed
for their habit, they are able to exist
where the higher animals could not, and
while they help to clear those inaccessible
places of the lesser vermin, they them
selves supply food for number of smaller
mammalia, which, with many carnivor-
Gus birds, devour vast numbers of young
snakes. The hedgehog, weasel, ichneu-
mon, rat, peccary. hog, goat and an i'm
mense number of birds keep snakes within
due limits, while the latter perform their
part among the grain devouring and
herbivorous creatures. Thus beautifully
is the balance of nature maintained
New Orleans Picayune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14

another disagreeable thing about Paris
is that many of the hotels are at least
fifty years behind the times. The damp
wind enters through numberless cracks in
the i'll fitting windows and doors; the fire.
places are the kind which waste nine
tenths of the heat; there are no bath
rooms, no arrangements for hot and cold
water, no proper plumbing, no gas, no
carpets except in the middle of the waxed
floors, no call bells, speaking tubes, tele-
phones. and a thousand other things
which have long been thought necessity
in America, and even in London. Why,
with all its magnificence, the Hotel Con-
tinental, and others equally luxurious,
has no other means of lighting the bed
rooms except by candles, and to make an
elaborate toilet by the aid of one of these
flaring, smoking, grease dispensing an
tiquities is not the easiest performance in
the world.-Mrs. Frank Leslie's Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14

1t is proposed to construct a grand
avenue from the tomb of Washington to
the Federal capital, a work of interest to
every citizen of the republic. This enter
prise was first suggested by The National
Republican, from whose columns we ex-
tract the following: 1T is proposed that
the avenue shall be $50 feet wide-twenty-
five feet on each side for parking-and
that each state and territory shall have
apportioned to it 400 yards-or nearly a
quarter of mile-where it will plant as
shade trees specimens of native growth,
erect marble tablet with the name of
the state, its coat of arms, and in the case
of the original thirteen the names of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, together with such statuary in
bronze or marble as the state shall chose
to erect 1t is further proposed that the
original thirteen states shall have choice
of the ground, commencing at the tomb
of the great leader, who, both in peace
and war, is ranked as first in the hearts
of his countrymen, and that the other
states and territories secure the next plats
in the order Of their creation as states and
erection into territories Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
CAPTURE OF THE SWORDFlSH.
The Hickory Pole Harpoon and The
Lance-How the Fish is Killed.

The Hickory Pole Harpoon and the
Lance-How the Fish is Killed.
The apparatus employed in the capture
of swordish, Professor Goode says, is
simple. 1t is harpoon with a detach-
able head. When the fish is struck the
head of the harpoon remains in the body
of the fish, and carries with it a light
rope, which is either made fast or held
by man in small boat, or is attached
to some kind of buoy, which is lowed
through the water by the struggling fish,
and which marks its whereabouts after
death. The harpoon consists of a pole
fifteen or sixteen feet in length, usually
of hickory or some other hard wood,
upon which the bark has been left. so
that the harpooner may have a firmer
hand grip. This pole is from an inch
and half to two inches in diameter,
and at one end is provided with an iron
rod or shank about two feet long and
five-eighths of an inch in diameter.
This shank is fastened to the pole by
means of q conical or elongated. cuplike
expansion at one end, which fits over the
sharpened end of the pole. to which it is
secured by screws or spikes. A light line
extends from one end of the pole to the
point where it joins the shank, and in
this line is tied a loop, by which is made
fast another short line, which secures the
pole to the vessel or boat, so that when it
is thrown at the fish it cannot be lost.
Upon the end of the shank fits the head
of the harpoon.
The entire weight of the harpoon, pole,
shank and head should not exceed eight
| l., 10
$50 fathoms long. In addition to the
harpoon, every swordfisherman carries
lance. This implement is precisely
similar to a whaleman's lance, except
that it is smaller, consisting of lanceo-
late blade perhaps one inch wide and
two inches long, upon the end of a
shank of five-eighths inch iron, perhaps
two or three feet in length, fastened in
the ordinary way upon a pole fifteen to
eighteen inches in length.
The swordfish are always harpooned
from the end of the bowsprit of sailing
vessel. 1t is next to impossible to ap-
proach them in a small boat. All YES
sells regularly engaged in this fishery are
supplied with a special apparatus, called a
rest or pulpit, for the support of the
harpooner as he stands on the bowsprit,
and this is almost essential to success.
When the fish is from six to ten feet in
front of the vessel it is struck. The har-
poOn is never thrown. the pole being too
long. The strong arm of the harpooner
punches the dart into the back of the
fish, right at the side of the high dorsal
fin, and the pole is withdrawn and fast
ened again to its place. When the dart
has been fastened to the fish the line is
allowed to run out as far as the fish will
carry it, and is then passed in small
boat, which is towing at the stern. Two
men jump into this, and pulling in upon
the line until the fish is brought in along
side, it is then killed with a whale lance
or whale spade, which is struck into
the gills. New York Mail and Express
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
In the Cathedral of Cologne.

In the Cologne cathedral there are 7
inches for the reception of statues at all
the chief doors and at the side entrances.
The height of the vestibule is 7 times 6
feet; pediments for the figures stand in
the same; : chapels surround the choir,
the width of which, like that of the inner
area of the church, is Z times 90 feet,
while the height of the choir is times
90 feet; the height of the aisles are
times 10 feet, and twice pillars adorn
the choir In the aisles are times s
pillars, and A times Z shafts rise along
the walls. The western portal is times 33
feet wide, the length of the vast building
is times 76 feet, and the height to the
summit of the principal towers was also
fixed at times rs feet. The three trans
verse aisles are times Is feet wide. Not
only does the number 7 enter SO largely
into the general architectural arrange
ments, but also into the smallest details
as the parts of decorative work. Chi
cago News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
Sheep Jnterest.
A TRIP AMONG THE SHEEP MEN.

Col and Mrs. Ii. f. Dean of West
Cornwall have returned from their trip
to Central New York. The Marcellus
Observer of recent date has the following {:
ave note with pleasure the visit of Mr..
and Mrs. Harrison L. Dean of West Corn
wall VT, to our town and vicinity. They
have been spending week with Mr..
Benjamin Wylie. Mr.. Dean is one of the
most noted and largest sheep breeders of
Vermont. His visit has drawn together
at Mr.. Wylie's, during the week, a large
number of the sheep growers in this re-
gion. Mr.. E. l.. Gage of DeRuyter join
ed them on Saturday. In the meantime
the farms and flocks of Mr.. j. III. EARL
and j. Il. Morse of Skaneateias, of Mr..
Ii. A. Cotton of Borodino, and of Mr.. II.
Cordenio Smith of Marcellus were visited.
The week has been an enjoyable one and
no doubt profitable to them all" On his
way home Mr.. Dean also visited at Mr..
N. Cottrell's at Pittstown, n. Y, and at
Mr.. NJ. H. Bottum's in SALISBURY. He
found New York breeders taking excel
lent care of their flocks and very hopeful
for the future of the sheep business. The
Observer also contains the following,
which will be of interest to local breeders
MARCELLUs, N. Y, Sept. ~, 81.
Messrs. Dean and Jennings, proprietors
of the Stowell Stud flock of sheep, have
procured the service of the ram "Julus,
bred and owned by S. S. Lusk of Victor,
N. Y. He is line Bred running direct to
the Hammond family. He sheared at the
public shearing held at Livonia, n. Y,
last spring, SO lbs. and 4 OF. He is a
model sheep of the Atwood type.
b. j. WYLIE
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
FALL SHELTER.

On the majority of farms all stock suf-
fers in the fall and early winter for want
of proper shelter. The porcine tribe comes
in for the lions share of discomfort. 1t
is no uncommon occurrence to see hogs
lying out in the open field with the rain
falling in torrents On them, or it may be
the snow covering them several inches
deep 1t is against good common sense
to assume that this state of affairs is con-
ducive to the health of the pigs or grown
hogs. If this fault comes to your door,
now is the time to plan to correct it. You
will find that little artificial shelter is
an improvement on that furnished by
nature to all creation alike.
No expensive shed or house is needed.
Something that will break off the winds
snow is sufficient. The hogs will not
take cold lying in dry, warm bed, nor
will they suffer from cold on leaving it.
1t is the coming out of their steaming
wet beds that sends the chill through the
whole system. We like these shelters
open that the hogs may have the use of
them at pleasure. If they enjoy run
in the rain we do not take it that it will
do them any harm, if they prefer it to
shelter.
Hogs never make their beds out in open
air in cold, rainy or stormy weather if
there is any shelter at their service.
They will accept the poorest of shelter in
lieu of none at all. Utilize the straw pile
that is slowly decaying without profit to
you. 1t will make good roof over
almost any cheaply constructed shed.
The great thing is to be liberal with the
straw, making it thick, and top out so il
will turn the heaviest rain. The farmer
usually fails in his first efforts to build a
straw shed in not using a sufficient
quantity of straw to insure a dry floor
AS constructed in the majority of in
stances the comfortable quarters they
are designed to make become places oil
accumulated filth and hotbeds of disease
and death. The straw roof should be o.
sufficient height to prevent the hogs from
pulling it down and carrying it into thei
beds. They make no choice whethe
wet or dry when making their beds
While dry straw makes clean ant
healthful bed for time, wet is to be con
demned all the time. When under ant
about the bodies of the sleeping porker
it appears to have the power OF generating
steam to an extraordinary degree. Am
the strange part about it, when the hog
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
Che Pouseholo.
OF DWELLING
ROOMS.

DR.. d. Benjamin of Camden, y. j.,
has made some observations regarding
the subject of the varying temperature
of our dwelling-rooms which will be
found of much practical Importance.
Every one knows in general way that
the air of rooms is colder near the floor
and near the windows, but the very exact
differences Of temperature as obtained by
DR.. Benjamin are very striking. For ex-
ample, in room ten feet high, twelve
wide, and twenty long, with good stove
and steady fire, the temperature in the
center was found to be IS degrees Fahren-
heit; four feet from the window it was
20 degrees; one foot from the window "a
degrees, and at the window 40 degrees.
At the height of the head the temperature
was IS degrees, at the floor 80 degrees, a
difference of25 degrees. AT the ceiling
the temperature was 80 degrees when the
temperature at the height of the head
was so degrees.
The fact that the temperature of dwell
ling-rooms varies so widely explains, no
doubt, the frequency with which young
children, and even adults, take cold in the
house. A Child sitting on nurses lap
in temperature of 20 degrees gets down
and plays on the floor in a temperature
10 or more degrees lower, or runs to the
window, hange of 20 or 30 degrees
The habit which ladies have of wearing
slippers or light shoes in the house is the
cause of maiy troubles for these same
reasons.
The temperature of room should be
about 20 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot
furuace-heaed houses of our cities cause
a vast deal If nervous and respiratory
trouble. TIE thermometer should b'
hung at abott the height of the persons
head, and, o, course, not near the window
or the stove. II Medical Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
SINGING ITSELF.

| asked n wee maid with winsome way
How She sang her songs through the livelong
day,
Are they woodland echoes that come at call?
Arc they fairy footsteps that round you fallH
Did you borrow or steal each happy note
From some feathered songsters bursting
throatY
Do you make them out of the fowcrets gayS
Or weave IN the sunhcam's golden ray?
"Oh, cGnnot tell" said the merry elf,
II cannot help it, it sings itself"
There's a song in my heart whose gay notes ring
Louder than woodland songsters sing,
Grander than those which have found a tongue,
Swectcr than any my lips have sung,
Brighter than sunbeams or howerets gay,
This song that sings through the livelong day.
1t never ceases through storms or i'll
of one sweet joy will it carol still.
will borrow your phrase, my merry elf,
For this song in my heart that sings itself.
Ada NJ. Simpson.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14

once have the steam started they hold to
such nest with great tenacity.
The heat that produces the vapor we
see rising from such nests represents the
disappearance of so much corn without
giving any equivalent to the farmer.
Every time we feed we are reminded that
corn is scarce, and we must devise ways
and means to make a short crop accom-
plish wonders. One of the cheapest and
most humane ways to do this is to give
the hogs comfortable shelter, dry and
clean, and exercise diligence to keep them
thriving [Stockman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
A Debt of Gratitude.

Gratitude that takes the form of dol
lars and cents is generally well liked by
the recipient. If SO, Private Heath of
the Fifth cavalry, should feel repaid for
a gallant deed he did eleven years ago in
the Sioux war. In that campaign he
rescued the captain of his company, who
was wounded, from falling into the hands
of the Indians, at the great risk of his
own life. Now Capt. Price is looking him
up to give him deed to Kansas farm
worth $9.000.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-14
THE GRAPEVINE IN AUTUMN,

On this timely subject the American
Agriculturist says: "Probably no other
question comes to us at this season of
the year more frequently than what
shall | do with my grapeviney If we
knew how the vine has been treated
through the summer, and what was its
present condition, the answer would be
comparatively easy one; but the prob
abilities are that the vine has not been
treated at all, but allowed to have its own
way, and at the fall of the leaf will present
one of the worst problems-a neglected
vine, and what to do with it. Each vine in
this condition will present different APP
pearance from any other, and each re-
quires treatment peculiar to itself. AS
one stands before the vine, after the
leaves have fallen, he sees a confused
mass of old stems, and stems or canes
which grew the last season. n knowl-
edge of a few points in the manner of
growth of the vine will be great help
to the proper treatment. In the first
place, observe that none of the stems
now seen will bear fruit or leaves next
year. All future growth will come from
buds now to be seen on the canes which
grew the past summer, or last seasons
canes. By diminishing the number of
these buds, we can control the growth
of next season. Next spring nearly ev-
cry bud will start, and produce a shoot,
which will bear leaves and fruit
Each of these shoots, if left to itself,
will bear three and sometim more
punches of fruit at its lower part, and
above these it will elongate and produce
several leaves, and finally ripen into
Just such a cane as we are now consider
ing. 1t will be seen, if every one of
these canes of last season were allowed
to produce a shoot from every one of its
dozen. or 20, or more buds, the result,
would be, at the end of next summer, a
still worse tangle than at present. Where
two canes are produced at any point or
Joint of the old stem, cut out the weak
est; next cut out all stems that stand
nearer to the one next below it than one
foot; next, shorten every cane of last
seasons growth, leaving but three buds,
counting from the old stem. This will
remove large share of the old vine, but
one is likely to remove too little rather
than too much. One in pruning a neg
lected vine needs to exercise some imagi-
nation. In the first place he must see
that the framework of the stems and
canes of the past season will remain as
they are; that all future growth will take
place from the buds now seen at each
Joint of the canes; let him imagine how
the vine will appear next season, when
each bud will be a shoot, bearing leaves
and fruit. If this is imagined, or fore
seen, it will help in deciding how to train
the vine. The manner of doing this will
depend upon what kind of trellis or
support is provided OF course, the old
stems are heavy and must be fastened
firmly to the support. Then imagining
that each bud left to grow will produce
"A shoot that will ripen into a cane, pro-
vide something, wire or lath, to which it
may be tied.